Sleeping-car



(No Model.) J. H. MYERS.

SLEEPING GAR.

No. 476,022. Patented May 31,1892.

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ilsrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J OllN H. MYERS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SLEEPING-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,022, dated May 31, 1892. Application filed March 14:, 1892. Serial No. 424,791. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleeping-(Jars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to sleeping-cars, and has for its object the improvement of the sleeping-berths by providing a removable ventilating-screen adapted to the form of the sides of the seats and a curtain-fixture sup ported on said ventilating-screen.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view longitudinally through the center of the car, showing the screens and curtains in position. Fig. 2 is a vertical section laterally through one of the berths and through one of the screens on the line 1 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the screens and supported curtains. Fig. 4: is a vertical section of the screen through the line 3 4 of Fig. 1,

and Fig. 5 is a top view of the pair of screens and curtains in position.

A denotes the ordinary sleeping-car body, and a a. the berth-section, which is constructed as usual, with the sides I) of the seats facing each other and forming the front frame of the berth and the swinging frame 0, forming the As new constructed, a pair of portiere-curtains are hung from the top of the upper berth and hang down to the floor, the same curtains covering the front ofboth upper and lower berths. tilated than the upper berth, and persons getting in and out of either expose the occupants of the other berth. My invention remedies both of these objections.

A single curtain B is hung on rings on a pole from the top of the upper berth and terminates at the bottom support thereof, and, if desired, it may be provided at the bottom edge with with an additional set of rings moving on an additional pole placed along said bottom edge. My invention is not in this, however, but in the construction of the Usually the lower berth is less venventilating-screens and supporting devices for the curtains of the lower berth. To that end I provide a removable wooden screen C, Fig. 3, of a shape at C C C to adapt it to contact neatly with the frame of the seat I) and with the frame I) of the berth. This screen is held in place by spring-bolts (Z, passing into recesses in the seat and side frame and swinging bottom support of the upper berth. A series of ventilating-slats m,set at a proper angle, are provided to allow a circulation of air in and out of the berth. The curtainst t of the lower berth are of portiere character-t. e., doubleand are hung on angle-rods s, which are removably supported on hooks n 'n on the inner edge of the screen (J. These curtains preferably overlap, as shown in Fig. 5. The angle-rods s 3 may have an extra cross-rod r to aid in keeping the curtain in place.

It will thus be seen that the occupant of either berth may enter and retire therefrom without disturbing the curtains of the other berth, and that the lower berth is thus provided with sufficientmeans for ventilation and privacy, the device being easily removable from the permanent fixtures of the berth when it is desired to fold up the swinging bottom support c and convert the berths into a pair of ordinary seats.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the body and seat-frame of a sleeping-car, of a screen 0, adapted to fit the same, with looking devices (Z (Z, adapted to removably support the same in position thereon, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the body and seat-frame of a sleeping-car, of a screen 0, adapted to lit the same, with looking devices (Z cl, adapted to relnovably support the same in position thereon, with ventilating-slats m therein, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the body and seat-frame of asleeping-car,of a pair of screens 0 0, adapted to fit the s.nne,with locking devices d d, adapted to removably support the same in position thereon, and a pair of ourtain-supports s s, removably maintained in ICO position by hook devices on the inner edges in position by hook devices 011 the inner edges of said ventilating-screens C, substantially as of said ventilating-screens C,substantia11y as described. described.

4. The combination, with the body and In testimony whereof I have hereunto af- 5 seat franie of a sleeping-car having aswingfixed my signature this 9th day of March, A. I 5

ing bottom 0 above the seats, of a pair of D. 1892.

screens C 0, adapted to fit the same, with lock- JOHN H. MYERS. in g devices fl d, adapted to removabl y support \Vitnesses: the same in position thereon, and a pair of JOHN R; NOLAN,

1o curtain-supports s s, removably maintained H. T. FENTON. 

